Tumbleweed36

Let's stick with this for a bit.

1st step:

On IDE #1

Western Digital as Master with Slave and jumpers set that way and on the end of the ribbon cable.

Maxtor set as Slave with jumpers set that way (A good many Maxtor models have jumpers set to slave and not removed), and on the middle of the ribbon cable.

Note: [u]You do need to check that, because as my memory goes, Maxtor does not always on all models have the jumpers removed for either setting.

2nd Step:

Bios setup menu in the MAIN area, you need to have the detection set in the Primary and Secondary IDE Master/Slave heading items set to AUTO.

3rd Step:

Bios setup menu in the BOOT main heading. You need to set the Boot Order to:

CDrom - 1st
Floppy - 2nd (if you have one)
Hard Drive - 3rd

4th Step:

Still in the Bios setup menu in the BOOT Main Heading. You need to scroll down to the Hard Disk Drives area and make sure that Hard Drive Priority is set to the boot drive FIRST.

Don't forget to save any settings that you have changed in all these areas.

Post back with what happens and I know you have done a few of these, but there has to be something we have basically missed, so just trying to cover all bases.

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